Sony Vaio VGN-SR41M/S
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Average of 5 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the Sony Vaio VGN-SR41M/S
13.3 Inches of Elegance. Sony fully pits on Intel's Centrino-2 platform in the Vaio VGN-SR41M/S. It is pretty well-equipped not only for standard applications, but also for light work in the area of multimedia with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card, and 4GB of system memory. The following review tells you how the tested pre-serial model meets our requirements.
Source: PC Pro
Archive.org versionThere are faster laptops on the market, but none of them blend power and portability quite like the 1.83kg VGN-SR41M/S. Indeed, if it weren’t for the iffy build quality and high price, we might have been tempted to honour the Sony with an award. As it stands, though, while the VGN-SR41M/S might impress with its technical achievements – we know of few, if any, 1.8kg laptops with any significant gaming prowess – we just can’t bring ourselves to completely forgive its flaws.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/02/2009
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 50% performance: 83%
Source: Techradar
Archive.org versionSony's ultraportable laptop has had some upgrades. Sony's VAIO SR series has been around for a year or so now, sitting in the middle of the company's ultraportable range. The VAIO SR41M/W (£1099 inc. VAT) sees a number of updates to the design and internal components. Although this model marks an evolution rather than a revolution for the SR range, the changes are all welcome and turn this into a very good ultraportable. It's a shame the plastics used inside aren't a little tougher but, that aside, it's a highly impressive machine.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/27/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Masters
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/15/2010
Rating: performance: 60% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/29/2009
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 79% display: 85% mobility: 87% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 93% emissions: 85%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/19/2009
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 30% display: 60% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Notebookinfo
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/16/2009
performance: 80%
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570: Lower middle-class GPU that features a low shader count and a 64 Bit memory bus but a high clock speed. Similar to the desktop Radeon 4550. Supports Avivo HD and DirectX 10.1.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T6400: Entry level dual core processor based on the Penryn core with only 2 MB level 2 cache and a low clock speed.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
